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Poliferno<br />
In brev’hora<br />
Potrai à luci aperte<br />
Vagheggiar non veduto,<br />
L’adorato sembiante<br />
Della bella Regnante<br />
Qui dalla bocca del Fantasma si forma gran Voragine in<br />
Aria.<br />
Creonte<br />
Che veggio?<br />
Poliferno<br />
À noi s’appresta<br />
Frà quelle fauci incognita la via:<br />
Movi sicuro il passo, e là t’invia.<br />
Creonte<br />
Anderei n nell’Inferno,<br />
Per mirar Volto si vago.<br />
Se più gr<strong>and</strong>e il Foco interno<br />
Desta in me la bella immago<br />
Anderei, &c.<br />
Entra nella Voragine.<br />
Scena XX.<br />
Poliferno.<br />
Oh di Lico infelice<br />
Infelice Consorte, à me Germana,<br />
Dirce, Dirce deh sorgi;<br />
E in Ombra almeno scorgi,<br />
Che se Vittima altera<br />
Col tuo sposo Regnante al Piè cadesti<br />
Del superbo Anone;<br />
A vendicar d’entrambi<br />
L’ingiurioso Fato,<br />
Provoca Poliferno<br />
Tessaglia all’Armi, & à battaglia Averno.<br />
Fiera Aletto<br />
Del mio Petto<br />
Non cessar di mover guerra.<br />
Holocausti più devoti<br />
T’offrirò, s’hoggi a’ miei voti,<br />
Rè tiran da tè s’atterra<br />
Fiera, &c.<br />
Entra nella Voragine, la quale si chiude profond<strong>and</strong>osi.<br />
Poliferno<br />
Shortly<br />
You shall be able, with open eyes,<br />
To enjoy unseen<br />
The beloved face<br />
Of the beautiful Queen.<br />
f e s t i va l o p e ra<br />
Here from the mouth of the Ghost a great Abyss forms<br />
in the Air.<br />
Creonte<br />
What do I see?<br />
Poliferno<br />
The secret way<br />
Is ready for us between these jaws:<br />
Go with confidence, <strong>and</strong> there you shall be led.<br />
Creonte<br />
I would go even to Hell<br />
To gaze on a Face so charming.<br />
For her lovely image<br />
Has awakened greater inner Fires in me.<br />
I would go, etc.<br />
He enters the Abyss.<br />
Scene XX<br />
Poliferno.<br />
O, my Sister, unhappy Lycus’s<br />
Unhappy Consort,<br />
Dirke, † Dirke, ah, arise,<br />
And although a shade, take note<br />
That though you fell a proud Victim<br />
With your Royal spouse at the Foot<br />
Of haughty Anfione,<br />
To avenge your<br />
Unjust Fates,<br />
Poliferno Provokes<br />
Thebes to arms, <strong>and</strong> Hell to battle.<br />
Proud Alecto, †<br />
In my breast<br />
Do not cease to make war.<br />
I shall offer you devout sacrifices<br />
If today, as I pray,<br />
The tyrant king falls to you.<br />
Proud Alecto, etc.<br />
He enters the abyss, which encloses him in the deep.<br />
† See glossary of terms, pages 210–211<br />
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